8:00 a.m. (0700 GMT, 3:00 EDT)
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says the black box recovered from the crash site has been damaged but is believed to be "useable." He says it is the voice and cockpit sound recorder. Cazeneuve told RTL radio on Wednesday that investigators were working to pull information from the black box voice recorder.
Although officials have been firm that no cause has been ruled out, Cazeneuve said terrorism is not considered likely.
Segolene Royal, another top French official, says the seconds between 10:30 a.m. and 10:31 a.m. are considered vital to the investigation into the crash. She says the pilot stopped responding after 10:31.
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7:25 a.m. (0626 GMT, 2:25 EDT)
Pierre-Henry Brandet, spokesman for France's Interior Ministry, says investigators are working to recover information from the black box retrieved from the scene of the crash. Brandet told French network iTele that recovery crews are expected to reach the site where the Germanwings went down sometimes Wednesday morning.
He said no causes had been ruled out in the crash that killed 150 on board
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6:30 a.m. (0530 GMT, 1:30 a.m. EDT)
Helicopter operations have resumed over mountainsides in the French Alps where a German jetliner crashed, killing all 150 people on board.
Under overcast skies, with temperatures just above freezing, helicopters resumed flights Wednesday over a widely scattered debris field.
A black box has been recovered from the scene. The Airbus A320 operated by Germanwings, a budget subsidiary of Lufthansa, was less than an hour from landing in Duesseldorf on a flight from Barcelona Tuesday when it unexpectedly went into a rapid descent. The pilots did not send out a distress call and had lost radio contact with their control center, France's aviation authority said.
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